London has been battered by 50mph winds that have felled trees and caused travel chaos. Powerful gusts swept across the capital as the Met Office issued a yellow "be aware" weather alert for most of the country.

As the Londoner reported two weeks ago, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets Lutfur Rahman complained to police about tweets by former Labour party manager Rob Marchant, which made reference to a revolver and were taken to be malicious. Marchant stresses they were misinterpreted.

The school playground that is Twitter just got serious again. After someone tweeted a suggestion that Lutfur Rahman, Tower Hamlets’ independent mayor, could be a potential candidate in the 2016 mayoral elections, former Labour apparatchiks piled in with their opinions.